Feminist Anthem?
The complexities of desire/power. Can surrender and empowerment and victimization and self-assertion and power all be the same thing? Or could someone be mistaken? Watch the video: HERE. Comments?
Assignment for Mon., Sept. 11 I mean Tuesday 9/12
So many thoughts. I keep thinking about "exclusions," and the historical movement of some of them from "obviously necessary" to "obviously unjust." I am also thinking about false consciousness, which I did not explain well. (But I think that there are accessible analogues.) We will talk more about these things. I'm thinking about a syllabus. Would you believe that it has been done, all this time? It has. I'm just insecure about it. For Monday, 201-244 in Feminism in Our Time. Good, close reading, so we could have a discussion as good as Thursday's. You will notice that one of the readings is by the very famous write Kate Millet. She just died this week. Here's a link about her that David sent me: HERE . And here's a link I caught, as I soaked in the interwebs: HERE . (Where are those links you were going to send me, about the variety of forms of relationships???)
I do think that these actions are all utilizing and channeling perceptions of one's own power. In surrender one realizes they have a lot/little power and make a conscious decision to step down or surrender. Surrender is a voluntary action where as defeat is not. Empowerment is a decision process of claiming and changing from a previous lack of power. Assertion is in a similar vein. Lastly, victimization is interesting because I feel it is an interpretation of power. A person can claim they have none or be told by others they are powerless. For this Halsey song I do think surrender and self- assertion are complex because in being told she is "holy" which is a word "the three piece" [likely a man or authority figure] expects her to perpetuate. By acting that way she betrays her own feelings and has to surrender to him at the cost of her own assertion. As a result she feels as if she is being held down. While I don't normally enjoy Halsey, this song definitely has relevance in our society.
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